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From the NYR: RYAN MCDONAGH NAMED RANGERS CAPTAIN Dan Girardi, Martin St. Louis, Marc Staal, and Derek Stepan named alternate captains NEW YORK, October 6, 2014 –New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that defenseman Ryan McDonagh has been named the 27th captain in franchise history.…

Post-game notes courtesy of the NYR: Devils 3, Rangers 0. Click here for boxscore. Team notes: – Hot at the Dot … The Rangers won 38 of 57 faceoffs (66.7%) in the game, as five of the six Blueshirts who took a faceoff won at least 50 percent of their…

Here’s my story from lohud.com: By Rick Carpiniello GREENBURGH – When center Derek Stepan broke his left fibula last week, winger Martin St. Louis texted Rangers coach Alain Vigneault and offered to try playing center. At some point this weekend, Vigneault will take up St. Louis on the offer. In…

Thoughts: 1) Happy October. Gotta tell you, that’s enough preseason for me. If they stopped right now, I’d be happy. The last two games, at least, will pretty much be the Rangers’ opening-night roster with a few players battling for the last two or three jobs. And they’ll be playing…

[polldaddy poll=8343088 align=”left”] Preseason Game 4. Rangers at Flyers. Ya boys play Mr. Snider’s real Flyers tonight at the Arena That Changes Names Every Five Minutes, not the Adirondack Phantoms team they pummeled last night. Included in the lineup are Claude Giroux, returning from injury, Wayne (“We’re out for…

Thoughts: 1) Is it possible that this team will be faster overall than last year? Yessiree. Speed kills, and when you replace Brian Boyle with (take your pick), replace Brad Richards with J.T. Miller, have a full season of Martin St. Louis’ wheels plus Chris Kreider from the start, maybe…

[polldaddy poll=8334710 align=”left”] Preseason Game 2. Rangers at Blackhawks. Many of ya boys make their preseason debuts tonight, and in some cases their Rangers debuts — i.e. Anthony Duclair, who starts on a line with Derick Brassard and Rick Nash. Also for the first time in a Rangers uniform:…

Click here to see an outstanding photo gallery from the first day of training camp, by lohud.com’s Frank Becerra Jr. Here is my story from lohud.com and The Journal News: By Rick Carpiniello GREENBURGH – Marc Staal has seen it up close, and very recently. The walk year of a…

(Editor’s note: our friend jpp is in Traverse City for the prospects tournament. He’s planning to send us some notes and observations during the tournament). By jpp The Rangers are good, real good. Believe it, BELIEVE in it, revel in it, & enjoy it. This is the golden age of…

The New York Rangers “Where do we go from here?” By Cynar Ok so I had this whole article written, then told Carp to hold up, I just didn’t like it. I was being a little too negative for a year where we made the Final!!!!! Look, last year seemed…

By Doodie Machetto Hello, my fellow Boneheads! What a great run, despite the tremendously disappointing finish. Those of you who are regulars and/or have been readers for a long time will know that if I love anything, it’s hearing the sound of my own voice (or reading my own words,…

Happy Father’s Day!!! A couple of things … we’ll have at least one Live Chat this coming week. Monday is breakup day and I will be there, and I think Josh Thomson is coming, too, and we’ll have a lot of tweets and audio and video and blog posts and…

We’ll have some more chats, for sure. And we’re going to have a lot of reaction the next several days, then through breakup day, the buyout period, the draft (do they have any picks?) and of course July 1. Gonna be a short summer. Thoughts: 1) Happy Anniversary? June 14,…

Here’s my column on Game 4, from The Journal News and Lohud.com: By Rick Carpiniello NEW YORK – The Rangers are going back to Cali. They have life. Their brink of elimination is no further away than it was before Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final, their margin for…

First, this: Looking at yet another Live Stanley Cup Final Chat, probably 1-ish. It’s tentative, but probable. Will let you know here, in the comments, and via twitter if/when I wake up. Be there. Thoughts: 1) I have an old friend who doesn’t get hockey. Baseball/boxing guy. He says 90-95…

This is subject to change, and subject to the blog server not crashing, but we’re planning to do another Live Stanley Cup Final Chat today at noon. Or maybe we’ll call it, Talking You Down. Be there. Thoughts: 1) This review is quick and easy. The Los Angeles Kings are…